Re: UCD in XML or in CSV? (is: UCD data consumption)

2018-09-03 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
But CSV is only fine for pure tabular data, and the UCD or CDLR data is has a more complex structure than a simple 2D table. In addition, the schema is evolving, with new kind of datas added everytime; you cannot keep that compatibility by adding more empty columns to a single table; adding new sem

Re: UCD in XML or in CSV? (is: UCD data consumption)

2018-09-03 Thread Adam Borowski via Unicode
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 08:24:06AM +0200, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode wrote: > For a non-programmer like me CVS is much more convenient form than XML - > I can use it not only with a spreadsheet, but also import directly into > a database and analyse with various queries. XML is politically correct,

Re: UCD in XML or in CSV? (is: UCD data consumption)

2018-09-02 Thread Janusz S. Bień via Unicode
On Sun, Sep 02 2018 at 4:16 +0200, [...] > So you can understand that I’m not unaware of the complexity of UCD. Though > I don’t think that this could be an argument for not publishing a medium-size > CSV file with scalar values listed as in UnicodeData.txt. For a non-programmer like me CVS i

Re: UCD in XML or in CSV? (is: UCD data consumption)

2018-09-01 Thread Marcel Schneider via Unicode
I’m not responding without thinking, as I was blamed of when I did, but it is painful for me to dig into what Ken explained about how we should be consuming UCD data. I’ll now try to get some more clarity into the topic. > On 31/08/18 19:59 Ken Whistler via Unicode wrote: > […] > > > > Third, pl